Mr. Meyers, Thank you for the full explanation. Another vote for future inclusion. It would be great if the format specified in the model we're then copied to the report at design time. Default formats are something our report writers expect and would use extensively. Our data frequently go to 4 digits when we want to display 2. We've got 500+ attributes so it is quite a disappointment to find this doens't work as expected under 2.0/3.0. Does the width property of the model attribute behave in the same way? That is, it works for RB 1.0 but not 2.0/3.0? I can't seem to get this to have an impact either. Thanks again, Michael Shewmaker